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Michael Pomerantz

@mdpesq.bsky.social
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Civil rights atty, music lover, Star Wars fan.

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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jim Salisbury is among the best to ever do it. A great #phillies reporter with tremendous knowledge of the game and a beautiful way with words. www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/mlb/p…
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Nick Piccone @piccone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SCHWARBER. HARPER. BOHM. FRANZKE.
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s funny and horrible that Pete Hegseth thinks he can be president.
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#LFG
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What a tremendous thing for Painter, whose season started absolutely miserably. How great for him. I’m going to go take a tranquilizer dart to the butt.
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Being a Phillies fan is not for the faint of heart.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
404media.co
How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You don't have to be from Philadelphia to love #StanleyClarke youtu.be/7rQ6T8vLXC8?...
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The Journey Behind Last Train to Sanity | Stanley Clarke
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Suggestion for Trump to soothe his ego during this trying time: endorse Talarico.
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man, I do enjoy shows from the 80's. This is from before I started going in-person (first show = '88), but those Brent years were something. When they were on, they cooked. #GratefulDead so-many-roads-boots.blogspot.com/2026/09/grat...
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Grateful Dead - 1981-09-30 - Edinburgh, Scotland (SBD)
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Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 13/05/2026
Never forget 5/13/1985
The image shows complete destruction, with only the shells of buildings remaining after the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb in the middle of a neighborhood.
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
American hero. Radical activist. History depends on getting the story right. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/major-l...
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Major League Baseball Is Sanitizing Jackie Robinson’s Radical Legacy
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Suck away my tiny dress I'm cleaner than a filthy mess
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Welp...
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 31/03/2026
"This court forces you to hand over a list of the Jews" is pretty goddamn scary.
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Judge Pappert, what are you doing? www.inquirer.com/education/up...
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Penn must release names of employees affiliated with Jewish organizations to Trump administration, judge rules
Penn had argued that releasing the information sought but the EEOC for its investigation into antisemitism would put employees at risk and create an undue burden on the school.
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Good news for Pennsylvania! Let's see death by incarceration outlawed everywhere. abolitionistlawcenter.org/2026/03/26/i...
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In Historic Ruling, PA Supreme Court Abolishes Mandatory Life Without Parole for Felony Murder
Derek Lee to be resentenced as court throws out his life-without-parole punishment
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
He really got a hold of that.
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
NOT ELITE! NOT ELITE!
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Here’s a nice rumination on the connections between the classic tv series #thePrisoner and you last year’s #pluribus. Both fantastic television. www.theunmutual.co.uk/comparespluri…
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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Excellent! Slavery exhibits restored. penncapital-star.com/civil-rights...
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Exhibits on slavery restored at President’s House in Philadelphia ahead of court deadline • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Nearly a month after they were taken down, the federal government re-installed dozens of signs commemorating the slaves that once resided at the President’s House in Philadelphia Thursday, before a co...
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Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A moment of sanity: www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
inquirer.com
Federal judge orders Trump admin to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House
The order does not give the federal government a deadline for restoring the President's House site.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
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Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Cowardly and racist is an amazing combination. We all know that wasn't a staffer and that he meant that shit. bsky.app/profile/leba...
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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 06/02/2026
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
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Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Extraordinary. I was crying by the end.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 27/01/2026
one of the funniest things i’ve ever seen
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A battle over consent erupts between Jeffrey Epstein and fifteen-year-old child.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/12/2025
Good lord, this November column from him aged terribly.
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Hi, David Brooks.
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It seems like all the money I’m spending on different streaming services goes to the same person.
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Beloved artist and innovator. He left quite a mark on me. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
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From Otis Redding to Booker T, Steve Cropper was a strong yet subtle force that shaped so many soul classics
The guitarist for Booker T & the MGs defined the sound of original R&B, co-creating soul anthems and proving himself one of the most influential musicians of the 60s
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The pipe bomb arrest feels like an op.
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Some good news for libraries! 📕📗📘📙 www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
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U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order
A court ruled that Trump’s effort to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency dedicated to funding libraries, was unlawful.
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Taking advantage of low-income consumers in this way is abominable. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
1/Judge Cameron Currie dismisses the Comey prosecution because Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed US Atty.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
He played Ralphi in Johnny Mnemonic. Terrific actor and a pleasure to work with.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I do not like your AI slop I do not want this worthless glop I do not read its overviews I don't care what Grok says is true I do not like it here nor there I'm tired of it everywhere
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is resigning from Congress in January
too many people in Washington. I believe in term limits and do not think Congress should be a lifelong career or an assisted living facility.
My only goal and desire has ever been to hold the Republican Party accountable for the promises it makes to the American people and put America First, and I have fought against Democrat's damaging policies like the Green New Deal, wide open deadly unsafe border policies, and the trans agenda on children and against women.
With that has brought years of nonstop never ending personal attacks, death threats, lawfare, ridiculous slander and lies about me, that most people could never withstand even for a day.
It has been unfair and wrong, not only to me and especially my family, but to my district as well.
I have too much self respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms.
And in turn, be expected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.
It's all so absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a "battered wife" hoping it all goes away and gets better.
If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can't even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.
There is no "plan to save the world" or insane 4D chess game being played.
When the common American people finally realize and understand that the Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected leader like me is able to stop Washington's machine from gradually destroying our country, and instead the reality is that they, common Americans, The People, possess the real p…
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny
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Michael Pomerantz @mdpesq.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Philadelphia is THE place to be for plaintiff's personal injury lawyers. There is a LOT of money to be made. The culture that produces some of the most talented and successful lawyers can be a bit toxic at times. www.law.com/thelegalinte...
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Bosworth's Social Media Video Prompted 'Concern for My Personal Safety,' Shanin Specter Testifies| Law.com
The long-running dispute between Kline & Specter and former firm attorney Tom Bosworth returned to a Philadelphia courtroom Thursday, with Bosworth bringing back Michael van der Veen, who had previous...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Just a little FYI from @jaywillis.net
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
Antonin Scalia Was a Diversity Hire
The late justice spent his career ridiculing the notion that elite institutions had any interest in diversity. He might not have made the Supreme Court without it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/11/2025
i don’t think it is appreciated enough how much roberts has right-wing legal theoried himself into being a dumbass
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 20/11/2025
"Black death row exonerees have to spend on average four more years fighting their cases compared to white exonerees." "They used my Blackness as evidence against me to sentence me to death." #Texas #USA #Incarceration #DeathPenalty #Courts
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New Report Highlights the 'Fatal Flaws' Behind Wrongful Capital Convictions
The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries to be leading contributors to exonerated death sentences.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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